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THE OMAHA DAILY REE: FHIDAY. .TAXUATU 1. 1900.
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Erenlnir and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of November. 1908. was aa follows:
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WHEN OUT Of TOWH.
abacrlbra viae tae city teaa
ra.rU? aaovld hay Tka Be
Stalled tm than. Addraae Will k
chanced aa often aa raqaaatad.
1909!
Good by, 1908!
Going to turnoverauewleaf?
Ring out the old, ring in the new.
A ForakerlesB senate will be a 1909
aovelty.
Popular song for the day "I'm On
the Water Wagon Now."
It 18 only about eight weeks until
the ball teams go into training.
Jack Frost may yet decide to join
the bear side of the ice market.
No wonder the Pittsburg delegation
in congress Is opposed to free Steal.
People conscientiously opposed to
'swearing naturally object to swearing
off.
Let us hope that 1909 will not at
tempt to equal the calamity record of
1908.
The one that la past due id the most
troublesome of the "Notes of the New
Year."
John A. Johnson has retired from
the limelight to make room for Jack
Johnson.
Paris newspapers are conducting a
discussion on whether actresses should
wed. Thejr do. '
Possibly last year's resolutions may
be pressed into service, as moat of
them have not been used.
Who told the hen that it was part
of her duty to aid in the conservation
of the nation's resources?
"We appeal to the common sense of
the pistol toters," says a southern pa
per. They don't have any.
According to the astrologer's chart
1969 carries ah evil star for the wild
beasts of the African jungle.
The real optimist will look pleasant
when he gets the bill for the present
his wife made him on Christmas.
That story of a shoe lace peddler
who has accumulated a fortune of
$200,000 probably has a string to it.
Governor Sheldon's delay Id filling
that supreme court vacancy is saving
the state just a trifle lees than. $90 a
week.
"Golf is the poof man's game' says
Mr. Taft: At least the mah feels that
way when he has to' pay 75 centa for
ft golf ball.
The evacuation of Cuba begins to
day, but Wall street is more interested
la the evacuation of the White House
on March 4.
Andrew Carnegie is said , to hare
given $160,000 to "clean up Pitts
burg." Mr. Carnegie jiade millions
by cleaning up Pittsburg.
Thomas Fortune Ryan has retired
from active business and savs 04 pro
poses to take things easy. He has al
ways taken things that way.
Prof. Ferrero deiiares that tha t-tor-lea
of official corruption in ancient
Rome have been greatly exaggerated.
Someone may say as much a few cen
tuTlea from now about official corrup
tion to Pittsburg and Sab Francisco.
omaha'h ir,At)t anotrtlt.
The totals for all local business at
th clow of the year 190 In Omaha
ate most gratifying. Kach item that
pnters into the balance sheet fof the
year shows a satisfactory standing,
and the entire record of the year is
one of steady and substantial growth
for the city. In building It was a year
of great activity, the total of four and
a half million for new huildlnas hav
ing been exceeded but once In the his
tory of Omaha, and that in 1889,
which still stands as the most wonder
ful In the local records. In total vol
ume of business transacted at the
banks a new record was established,
the total of clearings reaching above
$602,000,000. . The jobbing and
Wholesale honses did a greater volume
of business by several millions of dol
lars than during 1907, and the total
output of the local factories shows a
corresponding increase. The South
Omaha packing plants did a large
business, and the smelter and other
huge industrial concerns add millions
to the total. Forty-seven new con
cerns of importance opened their
doors for business in Omaha during
the year, and none of any consequence
closed up.
In all other ways Omaha's citizens
prospered during the year in spite of
the Causes that disturbed business
elsewhere. The social and vital sta
tistics published this morning will fur
nish interesting reading to any who
may desire to see In a compact form
the story of the city's year. It is one
of which the people of Omaha may be
proud. .
The promise for 1909 is one of
great encouragement. Already a great
building campaign is projected; mer
chants and manufacturers look for
ward to a year of unusual activity, and
the further growth of the city seems
assured. Omaha is just beginning to
come into its own as a center of com
merce and industry, and the achieve
ments of the past are but a slight in
dication of what the future will see.
THE OHIO SEXATORSHIP.
The republican party, Ohio and the
nation are to be congratulated upon
the happy turn in political affairs
which assures the election of Theodore
K. Burton to succeed Joseph Benson
Foraker In the United States senate.
The withdrawal of Charles P. Taft, the
brother of the president-elect, makes
the selection of Mr. Burton certain
and clear up a political situation in
the state that was sadly muddled and
threatened seriously to affect the party
harmony of the future.
The selection of Mr. Burton as sena
tor will go far toward restoring Ohio's
former prestige and standing in the
"most deliberative legislative body on
earth Mr. Bufton Is recognized as
one of the ablest men In public life.
He is not a particularly popular per
sonality so far as the ingredients of
personal magnetism is concerned.
Primarily, he is a student who has
given years of study and thought to
important public questions. As chair
man of the house committee on rivers
and harbors, he is the best informed
fnan in America on the waterways of
the country He Is also a recognized
authority on financial and currency
subjects and has a broad, definite and
comprehensive grasp of all of the
greater problems pressing for consid
eration of the congress and may be
relied Upon to take an active and ef
fective part in the. senate's delibera
tions. So far as party affairs in Ohio are
concerned, the selection of Mr. Bur
ton should have a wholesome effect.
He has not been identified with any of
the factions, confining his political
activities largely to the affairs of his
own congressional district, and he will
go Into the senate without inheriting
the troubles of a faotton leader.
The present outcome has been
brought about by the self-effacement
of Charles P. Taft as a candidate for
senator. Irrespective of the merits or
advisability of Mr. Taft's candidacy,
of which divergent' opinions have been
etpressed, his present action entitles
him to credit and commendation for
its manifestation of tin selfishness. Mr.
Taft had won enviable esteem by his
devoted championship of his brother
in the presidential contest and, now,
in refusing to stand in the way of a
satisfactory solution of the senatorial
fight, again exhibits praiseworthy
qualities that must put the party and
the people under additional obligation
to him.
the election of Mr. Burton will
mark the at least temporary retire
ment from public life of Joseph Ben
son Foraker, prominent in state and
national politics for many years.
Twice governor of Ohio and twice do
feated for that office, a leading figure
In republican national conventions for
twenty years, a candidate for the pres
idential nomination and a United
States senator for two terms, Mr. For
aker ha led a varied and checkered
public career. A boru fighter, much
of his political success and political
defeats have been due to his pug
nacious disposition. He was a lieu
tenant of Sherman and of McKlnley,
but opposed both when they had been
elevated to high office. He fought
Mark Hanna, then supported htm and
finally came to open rupture with hlni.
He quarreled with his colleague, Sen
ator Dick, a Hanna protege, made up
with him and then quarreled again
on the question of supporting Mr.
Roosevelt's policies. He tried to block
the president s railway rate legislation
and endeavored to make a national is-
ue against him out of the Brownsville
incident. Right or wrong, even hit
bitterest political adversaries have
given hini credit for ability to make
a gallant fight, even in a hopeless
cause. Whatever place history may
give Senator Foraker the estimate of
the day will rank him as a tricky
politician rather than a statesman.
The advent of Mr. Burton into the
senate will give Ohio the place in that
body that it won through the records
of Thnrman, Ben Wade, John Sher
man and Torn Fwing, In the reflected
light of which many men of much
lesser ability have shone.
THK JStf I ffXB ARb BVSIX&SS.
The year 190$ did not end In a
blase of glory for the Industrial world
but Its close holds out a most assuring
promise of greatly Improved condi
tions for the ensuing twelve months.
One year ago our people were In the
midst of the most severe trade de
pression experienced In many years.
The crisis caused by the panic of 1907
caused a serious derangement of the
monetary and industrial equilibrium.
Although the actual panic was short
lived, scared capital refused to resume
activity, while money was allowed to
accumulate In the banks and Industry
baited and hesitated. The period of
derangement, really extended frcm
August, 1907, until all apprehension
was removed, after the presidential
election of the present year.
The upward movement, Which be
gan when all doubt as to the election
of a republican president had passed,
is steadily gaining strength. It is re
flected In the daily reports of the do
ings in the financial, industrial and
commercial world to an extent un
usual at the holiday time, which Is usu
ally given over to invoicing and
preparations for future business. New
England reports an unprecedented
activity in the cotton mills and
marked activity in the woolen mills,
in anticipation of the trade already in
sight for the new year.
The steel industry, generally ac
cepted as the best barometer of in
dustrial conditions, has been improv
ing for months in all lines except in
railroad equipment and the reports for
the closing weeks of the year indicate
that the railroads are preparing for
enormous outlays within the present
year for general betterments. Pre
liminary estimates of railway earnings
indicate a slight increase over the
earnings of 1907 and an increase over
every other year in history except
1906, which was the banner year for
transportation companies. The banks
throughout the country are holding
more money than ever before and
funds are in sight for the prosecution
of every legitimate business enter
prise. The year opens, therefore, with few
clouds In the horizon and those in
sight are growing smaller on their
scheduled way to complete disappear
ance. The election of a republican
president, pledged to a continuance of
the Roosevelt policies, and an early re
vision of the tariff has opened the way
for a speedy resumption of business
along normal lines, with promise of a
happy and prosperous year for all the
people.
t)t MIX: BATH AffG THE TARIFF.
The ciaims made by the democrats
in the recent campaign, of their burn
ing desire to get control of congress
In order to give the people prompt
and radical tariff reduction appear now
as a huge joke, in the light of the at
titude of the minority in congress on
the tariff revision bill that has been
under discussion by the ways and
means committee for some weeks.
The hearings before the committee
and the discussions among the mem
bers have developed the fact that the
democratic party as represented in
congress is highly protective in sym
pathy and that the proposed reduc
tions of existing schedules will have
to be made practically lb opposition
to democratic votes. .
The new minority leader, Champ
Clark, IS a free trader, as was his Im
mediate predecessor, John Sharp Wil
liams, and a few of the northern dem
ocrats in congress and there are only
a very few of them are fairly square
on the party platform. But southern
democrats almost to a man are as rad
ical as any northern republican In de
manding retention of existing tariff
Schedules on tobacco, rice, cottori, lum
ber, citrus fruits, lead, barytes and
other minerals and metals as Well aa
a variety of manufactured products in
which southern Industries are inter
ested. Many democratic members
frankly state that they opposed pro
tection until the industrial develop
ment of the south begari, which has
now convinced them that the south
has been, long enough Without its fair
share. of the benefit Of the tariff.
Since the country at large," explains
one southern democrat, "has voted to
place a protective wall around the In
dustries of the nation, the south ought
not to be expected to stay Outside of
it and compete with foreign coun
tries."
The democrats of Alabama are in-
Misting on retaining the duty on iron
ore and manufactured iron and steel,
While those from Georgia and South
Carolina are demanding that the duty
on cotton and cotton goods be in
creased rather than reduced. Virginia
and Kentucky democrats are fighting
every proposal to lower the tobacco
schedules and democratlo Texas is
ready to fight at the mention of lower
duties on hides, wool, cotton, rice or
lumber. So strong Is the demand of
democratic members for tariff protec
tion for the Industries of their indi
vidual districts that the leaders have
about abandoned hope of mustering
any party opposition to the tariff
measure when finally reported for con
sideration. The democratic leaders may con
tinue to denounce the tariff as Jobbery
or robbery or just plain republicanism,
but the rank and file of the democratic
house members. If they do not support
the measure outright providing It
guards their sectional Interests, at
least will pot no serious obstacle In Its
way.
Real friends of the Indian will re
gret the announcement of Francis K.
tenpp, commissioner of Indian af
fair, that he will retire from office
and public life on March 4. Mr.
Leupp has been In office about four
years and has given the government
most valuable service, having done
much to encourage the Indian to be
come self-supporting and to shape the
government's Indian policy to that
end.
The statistical review of Omaha's
progressive activity contained In this
Issue of The Bee Is the best kind of
an advertisement the city Can have.
Order extra copies and mail them to
out-of-town friends whom you want to
Interest In Omaha's bright future.
Sixteen more cadets have been dis
missed from West Point. It Is a lit
tle remarkable that there should bo
so many vacancies both at Annapolis
and West Point, where the govern
ment furnishes the best education ob
tainable without cost to the students.
The manager wlo made a fortune
out of the origlnal"Florodora' com
pany has been declared a bankrupt.
The several hundred members of the
Original sextet ought to take up a col
lection for him.
Residents of the northwest have pe
titioned the ways and means commit
tee for free coftl. We object to dis
crimination in favor of the northwest.
If coal is to be free we all want a
share of it.
Members of congress might have
enjoyed their holiday vacation more
bad they not invited the president to
Bend them another message about the
secret service on their reconvening.
An Indian woman named Partridge
has been married to three men named
Robin, Sparrow and Quayle, and has
divorced each Of them. This partic
ular Partridge is certainly a Bird.
The London News announces that
James 8. Palmer will be a candidate
for president of the United States in
1912. No objection at all, but who is
he?
"As a naval power England stands
at the crossroads in her history," says
the London National Review. Possi
bly, but the crossroads is not a suita
ble place for a battleship.
Senator Tillman accuses President
Roosevelt with using Intemperate lan
guage. Anything of that kind must
be shocking to the mild-tempered Till
man.
J. Ham Lewis is going to Japan on
a secret mission. A man with the J.
Ham Lewis brand of pluk whiskers
has no business trying to travel incog.
A lleat Moving Picture.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A Pittsburg arllst succeded in getting
a flashlight photograph of a member of
the city council in the :ict of receiving a
bribe, ft may properly be referred to aa
a moving picture.
Divers Kinds of fie.
W.Tshlhgfon TTerald.
It Ifl stated the Fresident-f lect Taft Is
very fond of pumpkin pie and won't touch
any other kind. When lie comei tu dis
tribute pie at Wlshlhgton he will find few
people aa particular; most of them will take
any kind they can get.
Mneit Oooit and jVo Harm.
Boston Herald.
The story of Chief Forester Giffoid Pin
ehot that the extensive use of Christmas
trees not only does no harm to our for
ests, but rather Improves them by thin
ning out (he underbrush, ought to relieve
those anxious minds that are not so well
Informed on the subject as Mr. Pinchot Is.
There's no occasion for mourning for the
4.000,000 trees that contributed to the joy
of the late festival.
C'apllallalna; alae of I-rqncliNes.
Washington Herald.
That the principle of excluding the value
of franchise from tho capitalization of a
public service corporation will be eventually
adopted in all corporation legislation is
quite probable. Orave Injustice Is done the
public when a privilege granted by the
people to a corporation Is rnado the means
Of taxing them for the payment of fat div
idends on a capitalized valuutlon of that
privilege. may be impossible to correct
this injustice as to franchisee already euu
itallzed, but It will be easy to prevent its
consummation In the case of franchises yet
to be granted, or In tho case of future ap
pllcationa for Increase of capital stock.
PBRNOXAI, SOTKS.
With twelve members of t lie house com
mittee off for Panama, the t'ongrcNsional
Record ought to have some hunch as to
what la coming to It In the not far re
moved future.
A Washington correspondent remarks
that Benator Knox IS a masterly poker
player, probably the best in tho I'nited
States senate, and adds; "He alwuys plays
them as If he had them, and one can never
tell from hl face whether he has four
aces or a 'busted straight.' "
A Tennesseo Jury rendered a verdict of
"Justifiable homicide" In the case of a man
who had shot a neighbor wearing a fur
coat. Even when a man drt-sses (to that
he resembles a bear the killing of him Is
hardly Justifiable unless by some unwrit
ten law they have down that way.
Fencing Is said to be ofte of the popular
fads In the east and many Washington
women will take up the foils this winter.
Baroness Moncheur, who was known in
St. Louis aa Miss Charlotte Clayton before
her marriage, Is among the most expert
swordswomen. Miss Chenowith, private
secretary of Senator Foraker, is considered
one of the best. The champion amateur
fencer of the United States is Miss Mlche
ionl. In Chicago the practice has prevailed
for municipal contractors to distribute
Christmas presents among municipal em
ployes. The board of Improvements adopted
a rule to go Into effect a year heme cut
ting off tins pernicious practice, but with
out watting far next Cliriatmaa to come
around the president and four members
of the board uava returned a valuable ar
ray of presents they had received from
the contractors. This board annually
1 passes on about S.0uO,jw of city contracts.
Ode to the Km Year.
King cut. wild bells, to the wild sky.
The flying timid, the frosty light;
The year Is dying In the nig.il;
Ring out, wild bells, and let lilm die.
Ring out the Old, ring lit the new;
King, happy bells, across the snow;
'Hie year Is going, let him go;
Ring out tho false, ring In the true.
Ring out tho grief that saps the minds.
Fur those that hero we we no more;
King out the feud nf rich and poor,
Ring In redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cau?e.
And ancient furm of party strife;
Hlng In the nobler modes of life.
With sweeter manner, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The falthlre? coldness of the times)
Ring out. ring out, my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Rlnff out false pride In place and blood,
The clvlo slander end the spite;
King In hive of truth and right.
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
King out the narrowing lust of gild;
King out the thousands of wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of pe:ioe.
Ring In the valiant man snd free,
The largest heHrt. the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land.
Ring In the Christ that Is to be.
At.FHBD TKNNTSON.
New Tear Hesolntlnns.
To drink no more I now resolve
Except when I ain dry;
And smoking, too. I'll shun, of course
At least, that is. 111 try!
And flirting? Well it's rather hard;
But like cures like, they pay
And so to try to break myself, I'll try
The homeopathic way I
And spending money, too, I'll quit
As soon as it's all gone
That is unless my watch wilt bring
Ten dollars moro In pawn)
And swearing, nlso. I'll avoid;
Please don't say that I scoff,
For swearlne 1 hate so very much,
I'll e'en stop swearing off.
January Bohemian.
Passing- of Time.
Why speak of the scythe and the hour
glass
A tii hnrds mn Inna- have sung?
Why should we notice how Time may
pass,
Po long ss tho soul is young?
Let wrinklus come and the head grow
gray
Ti's ower a. muse for tears.
For Methuselah hoped and laughed, no
doubt,
When ho had nine hundred years.
They fall to learn their lesson right
And take tho dross for gold.
Who think gray hair, a wrinkle or two,
Are marks of growing old.
Joy's song may lie aa gladly sung.
And r'en In better tune
If the heart keeps time with tn proper
December than In June.
go. when it hnps In tho rim of days
That we turn the New Year page.
Why point to Time, with his dented
scythe.
Or other signs Of age?
What Is It, In truth, that has been brought
Ky tho seasons In their whirl.
Where a boy, a light-winged promising
lad
Gives a good-bye kiss to a girl?
No talk of trmbptones on Life's road;
No milestones of the past.
But drvams of Hope rnd t-ongs or Joy
Kach merrier than the last.
And whether we're eighty, or twenty, or
ten,
Let this New Year's praise be sung:
Not Nineteen Hundred and Nine years old,
But that many years Mill young.
P. II. DOYLE.
Swearing Off.
Good Deacon Hobbs had a righteous mind,
tli.llirl'.i.a .nil imtflrii
Another such you might not find
in many a passing year.
When New Year's came he was put Otit
Hv a most peculiar plight;
He wrestled with a horrid doubt.
Which would not taka to flight.
He'd sworn off everything that man
Could think of stopping short.
In other vears he'd put the ban
On things of every sort.
Hut suddenly Ills face grew bright,
tie lauelied a smothered cough,
Ho saw a path as clear as light-
He swore oil swearing oit.
The Housekeeper.
To the l.llllr New Year.
You bring s happiness, delight.
Renewed each soul and heart tonight.
Kalr child of purity and grace,
Wo liken to your soul and lace
A lily bright.
Tho old year dies, now roseate grows
Tho dan cer mountains cappea wun
snows.
Your breath so faint, of fragrance rare,
Your smiling hps. we would compare
To blushing rose.
yttliwait the east a ruddy bar
Your father. Time, awaits your car;
When vou alight what glad surprise.
What happiness shines In your eyes,
Bright morning star!
Oh, sweet nnd happy little one,
To every weary mortal run!
I.ilv nnd star and rose are you.
And faith and hop.' you will renew,
'Neath New Year's sun!
WALTKR KKVKRI.EY CRANE.
He form Aril Day.
There's nothing In the habit,
Ah any one can see.
I'm going to bre.ik oft smoking,
And from the weed be free.
Tomonow at the latest
I'll throw my pipe away,
So since 1 am determined
I'll smoke awhile today.
It's hist a waste of money,
A burning up of wealth;
It doesn't help the morals.
It doesn't mend the health.
Far ltier spend my wagns
On bills I ought tu pay.
I'll chop it off tomorrow,
Ho light r up tod.iy.
There's no excuse for being
A slave to such vice.
Though It were not an object
To silt away U,5 price.
So fnvc ye well, perfecto.
And rope of twisted hay;
I'm done with you tomorrow.
Though f i lends we are today.
Without regret or longing,
Without a single sigli.
Or moan for pleasures passing.
I'll put my meerschaum by.
Tomorrow yes, tomorrow
I II snissh my pipe of elav,
Hut If there's no objection
I'll HcliL it up today.
Nashville American.
Cod Bless Yoa!
God bless vou 'lis a homely phrase.
It brlntis the smiles. It brings the tears,
It holds the hopes of other days.
The joys of other years.
The pain nf parting, and the bltss
(if happy hearts on homing wing,
The warmth of the returning kiss,
The clasp of arms that closely cllnf.
God bless you Ah. the blood runs warm
When dear lips breathe tho prayer sin
God keep vou safe from hurt or harm!
God bless you through Hie year!
B. McM. BkLl-.
Big Mil lis and the Canal.
St. Iyiuls Globe-Democrat.
One of the evident questions at Panama
Is If the canal as planned will accomodate
the latest huge battleships and big liners.
Ship dimensions have greatly increased
since the United States took hold on the
isthmua and the fact is one that calls for
fresh consideration. But yellow clamor
about the canal well accomplish nothing.
ttaakera tioiaa Some.
Philadelphia I'reBS.
In Pennsylvania for the year Just closing
almost 24.0U0 automobile licenses were is
sued, being an increase over last year of
about S.000. That certainly does not lndi
cate'thut thera was any depression In the
automobile business during the lust twelve
months, no matter what the general con
ditions may have been.
The York Store Branch
Piano Stock Hon On Sale
M lnl.p5'
On December 19lh, We Diseentlnned 0or
Branch Piano Slock at York, Nebraska.
Thia Vi&ao and Organ stock waa shipped to Omaha.
This Mock is now placed on otir floors at 1513 Douglas
street and is offered to the public at unheard-of low prices.
The instruments are all practically new, having been in
stock but from two weeks to a few months, and are per
fect in every respect; hs this stock crowds our availablo
space and as we begin ranking alterations directly after
holidays, we are forced to dispose of them without delay,
therefore wo mark them down to prices that are one-half,
in some instances to one-third, off the regular retail cell
ing prices.
Every instrument is fully warranted at from five to twenty
years. With every piano goes a stool to match and a fin silk or
Velour scarf.
The terms are the easiest obtainable s little aa $8.00 per
month until paid for. Where cash is offered we make a small
discount.
This piano stock contains very late caae designs in Spanish
mahogany. In French and American walnnt, in quartered American
and English or antique oak.
la styles there are colonial, art cases and the modem cabinet
grands, as well as baby grand pianos.
Everyone recognizes the Importance of this sale when you know
it comprised such world renowned makes as the King Pianos, the
Chlckering Pianos, the Conway Pianos, the Kimball Pianos, the
Weser Bros. Pianos, the Melville-Clark the Kensington, the Cramer
anaemany other high grade Pianos.
The Organs put on this sale are also new and up to dale In
style and finish and comprise the Kimball Organ, the Swan Organ,
the Hosp Organ and others.
When you take notice that brand new, up-to-dat Pianos go in
this salt for
$120.00 $148.00 $160.00 $108.00 $235.00
$250.00 $278.00 AND UP.
On PAYMENTS OF $0.00. $7.00. $8.00. $10.00
and only raqulre $10.00 DOWN to get one eent home, you will
fully make up your mind now la the time to buy.
Remember there are bat fifty Pianos, and all genuine bargains.
' Don't Forget, $10.00 Down Takes One Ilome.
A- (HIS!P
1513 Douglas St.
AEHIAI, VICTOHIKS OF THK YEAR
Marked PrnnrrH In tke "Coaqaeat of
ha Air."
Chicago Record-Herald.
- Among the achievements of the year
nothing stands out mors prominently than
the "conquest of the air." In the last four
months aviation, by means of heavier-than-alr
contrivances, has passed rtom the spec
ulative stage to a reality. Within thla
short period feats have been accomplished
which eclipse thosa of all the years of
experiment preceding. A twelvemonth ago
the progress that has been mada would not
have been believed possible by any except
the most enthuslastio exponent of flying
machines.
The Wright brothers of the United States
are the men who have achieved the first
great triumphs in aviation, and tiday hold
title as kings of the air. Wilbur Wright
has won for himself and the American
Aero club the first Mlchelin trophy, which
typifies his triumph. The winning of tho
trophy by an American Is all the mora
noteworthy because other nations were giv
ing practical encouragement to airship In
ventors, and there was widespread enthus
iasm over aviation abroad long bef ..re pub
lic Interest had passed the bounds of skep
ticism here.
It waa no longer ago than the morning
of September 9 that Orville Wright at Fort
Myer, Va., thrilled the world with his aer
oplane flight lanting fifty-seven minutes
find thirty-one seconds. Before nightfall of
tho same day he had beaten this record by
a flight sustained for one hour and two
minutes, In tha presence of cabinet officitls
and high officers of the army and navy;
and then, taking aboard a pass.-nger, he
broke another record by encircling the big
parade ground six times and remaining
; aloft seven minutes. Subsequently he easily
j broke both those records, and there is no
telling what might have been his achieve
menta but for the accident, with its at
tendant tragedy, that wrecked his ma
chine. t'ndaunted by Ms brother's accident,
Wilbur Wright began to break records In
France With his duplicate of the machine,
until record-breaking got to bu so com
mon as to oease to excila amazement. On
September XI at I5 Mans he mado sus
tained flight of one hour thirty-one min
utes and twenty seconds' duration. On Oc
tober t, with a passenger aboard, he "flew"
for fifty-five minutes and thirty-seven sec
onds. On December 18 he shot up an aerial
Incline t.j a height of 240 feet, then
dropped fitly feet and stopped his engine,
swooping gracefully to the ground without
A Happy and Prosperous
Mew Year!
Is our greeting to our many friends and patrons who have
contributed so liberally to our success the past year.
We wish to thauk one and all and hope for a con
tinuance of your generous patronage.
In the future, as always in the past, you will find the
best ready-to-wear clothing for men, boys and children to be
had anywhere.
'Brewning.'K.ng
ill
F & Company
It. M. WILCOX. Manager.
1 a
re.
barfs
a jar. Two days later lie won the Sartha
Aero club's prise for height, amending
more than 300 feet, In n strong wind, and
again broke hla record for duration of
flight, covering sixty-one miles in on
hour fifty-thi?e minutes and fifty-nine sec
onds. The person not satisfied with this show
ing of less than four months or who still
regards aviation as Impracticable' Is a con
firmed cynlo.
LAST Y K. H'S MlltTII.
"If you make any good resolutions this
year, you had better make some vou can
kfep."
"All right; I'll make a resolution not to
make any." Baltimore American.
"Ho you are not going to make uny New
Tear resolutions?"
"No," answered Mr. Meekton. "I fully
meant to make a few. Hut when I an
nounced my intention the members Of mv
family had so mnnv suggests ns to offer
that I rew discouraged." Washington
St or.
"You look tired, Johnny. What's tin
natter social duties too much for you?"
said a gentleman In a Cincinnati elevator
the other dav. Jocosely.
"Yes. sir," replied the elevator iinv.
opening the door at tho ninth floor to
let out Mr. Taft. "I've been getting up a
large party." Llppincott's.
She waa tall and muscular. lie wjs
small and weak. Her t'ttitude was re
solved. His was depreciation.
"How are you going to celebrate New
Year's eve?" he asked timidly
"As it Is the end of leap year," sho
answered, "I propose"
Hut she got no furl her. He had disap
peared. Philadelphia I'ress,
"That babv. madam," said the doctor to
Hie proud and happy mother, "will mnke
his mark In Hie world some day,"
Note the fulfillment of the predict!' n.
In less than Blxteen years tint liov wns
the scoreboard artist In a great base ball '
park. Chicago Tribune. j
Indignant Matron ln box pitty st nnrnr'
They think they must blame smnebiirte
,.! Ilti l.t. tonlalit and Ml the
blame me. Well, my shoulders are hroHdl
Aged Beau (with a low hnt-Ann naz
5
tllngly white, madame. Chicago Tribune
"It took hundreds of years to build those
pyramids, snid the gulile.
"Huh" rejoined the Am'fcn tnrlt
"It must have been a government Job."
Chlcago News.
"There Is no doubt that the man Ikih
relatkma with 8tandrd Oil."
.. ,. . J I tin U,.. v 'M.;
Well, HIlHWtTCO Air. iM.riui run. .
mav derive some aatlNfuctl' n from the re(-
HeCtlOn Hini UfV H"l rr.nini,r.
Washington Blar.
Noah surveyed the ark.
"Think What sport Ttnoaeyelt would have
ho chartering that shin." be cried.
Ker-wlth be drove the animals aboard -New
York Bun.